Julian Barnes: A Reader

Edited by Lidia Vianu

Contemporary Literature Press is publishing a second book in the series of Readers which began with David Lodge. This time we have chosen the work of a fiction writer who has won quite a number of prizes for his books, among which the Prix Médicis and the Man Booker Prize.

Julian Barnes belongs to the post-war generation. His stories are clear, his style is witty and tender at the same time. He has written novels, stories, essays, journalism. His books have been translated into almost fifteen European languages, among which Romanian. His themes range from life in a city to stories of a marriage, from the fall of the iron curtain to the history of literature, and the whole history of the world "in 10 ½ Chapters". His sense of humour has a hidden tragic face.

By publishing extracts from a number of Barnes's novels as Parallel Texts in both English and Romanian, we mean to offer readers in general, and students of English in particular, a taste of contemporary English literature in a nutshell.

Lidia Vianu

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